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Suspension XX (SG187)
Sylvie Guyomard
Painting - 60 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
£579
Into the consciousness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,115
Te quiero, te quiero
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£2,448
Lumière à l‘horizon… (Souvenirs du sud)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£623
Bonheur perpétuel... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
£534
Peinture 05-2022-38
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
£757
Reverse of Syncretism – I am serious, why you don’t believe…
Graça Tirelli
Painting - 51 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
£1,335
Blue silence #2
Elena Raceala
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£814
Peinture 01-2022-02
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£757
Les gorges du Tarn
Gauthier Bruel
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,869 £1,682
Intersect # 202101 (Abstract Photography)
Paul Snell
Photography - 118 x 118 cm Photography - 46.5 x 46.5 inch
£4,750
Campagna Toscana
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£534
Bleed # 202393
Paul Snell
Photography - 180 x 115 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 45.3 x 0 inch
£5,850
Bleed # 202390
Paul Snell
Photography - 180 x 115 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 45.3 x 0 inch
£5,850
The emerald spirit of Africa
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
£1,068
Bleed # 202332
Paul Snell
Photography - 180 x 115 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 45.3 x 0 inch
£5,850
Choosing Happiness
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 150 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£854
Bleed # 202331
Paul Snell
Photography - 170 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 66.9 x 47.2 x 0 inch
£5,850
Untitled III. From the Durero series
Ana Seggiaro
Painting - 119.9 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,049
Promises (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0 inch
£4,400
In The Middle Of Nowhere
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 230 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 90.6 x 0 inch
£11,000
Aires tropicales
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 190 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 74.8 x 0 inch
£9,200
When I look into your eyes
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
£4,400
My dreamy world
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
£4,400
Untitled SE Wild Style Raw large jaune
Seen
Painting - 51 x 140.5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 55.3 inch
£2,225
Sans titre Ref (358)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 105 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£3,115
Sans titre Ref (357)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 117 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 46.1 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£2,937
Sans titre Ref (356)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 105 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,759
Sans titre Ref (353)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 85 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£2,759
Sans titre Ref (352)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 102 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 40.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£2,937
Sans titre Ref (351)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 103 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 40.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£3,115
Sans titre Ref (350)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 95 x 88 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 34.6 x 1.2 inch
£3,115
Wall street monsters and other tales
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 53 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
£801
Wall street monsters and other tales
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 53 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
£854
Le bateau Ivre
Richard Saint-Amans
Painting - 159 x 99 x 3 cm Painting - 62.6 x 39 x 1.2 inch
£1,780
Giochi di Sabbia
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£579
Colored artworks
The work of color is central in any artistic work. It is even one of the first tools of the artist. It is difficult to imagine a work that would exist without the working of color - even if it is the absence of color that the artist chooses to present.
Through the ages and artistic movements, the use and meaning attributed to color evolves, but the essence of color remains the same. Every artist must master the properties of color in order to control his composition. In the restoration of paintings, color even becomes a science, because it is necessary to know the different molecules to find the colors and mixtures originally used by the artist.
In the history of art, the importance of color fluctuates according to periods and geographical areas. During the Italian Renaissance, for example, there was a debate (called Paragone) between the authority of color versus drawing: according to the schools, it is the color, and not the line, that creates the emotion and visual power of a work of art. The colors thus take on an immense importance, and assume certain meanings: white symbolizes purity for example, and blue (systematically used to clothe the Virgin Mary) is associated with divinity. These symbols are not thought of randomly: the purple for example, is used since the Byzantine era to signify the highest rank of royalty. Unlike ochre, the purple pigment came from a specific shell, and was extremely difficult - and therefore rare, and expensive - to obtain.
More generally, colors can be divided into three categories: warm, cool, and neutral. As their name implies, these classes of colors give off an atmosphere that the painter can use to influence the emotion of his work. Baroque art, for example, manipulates the contrasts between warm and cold colors to capture the power of bodies. The play of light is exalted by the effects of color. For a long time, the traditional Western school of painting required painters to reproduce the colors of the environment around them. It was the Impressionists, in the 19th century, who explored other ways of seeing - and therefore of transcribing on canvas - their chromatic environment. By avoiding complex mixtures and painting spontaneously, in the open air, the Impressionists reinvented the use of color to reproduce reality.
It was not until abstract and subjective painting that art devoted itself to color as a subject. Mark Rothko, precursor of the Colorfield Painting movement and of abstract expressionism, sees in his paintings a living organism whose color is human and whose format is transcendent. Piet Mondrian, on the other hand, sought in his paintings to approach the very essence of nature through the purity of primary colors, to achieve abstraction. The founder of the Russian avant-garde movement of Suprematism, Kasimir Malevich, will disturb the senses of everyone with his work "White square on white background", in which the color is painted only for itself. Contemporary art, photography, collage, or pop art also use in their respective ways the resources of color, exploring indefinitely all its pluralities. As Picasso said, "When I have no blue, I use red."
Artsper writes art in color: discover below a great selection of works that honor color and its properties. What better way to brighten up an interior?